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Clinical AI scribes and the redistribution of narrative power

Dec 10, 2025

in AI, Clinical

AI governance, bias, clinical AI scribes, clinical communication, clinical governance, clinical practice, healthcare equity, medical documentation, medical records, patient advocacy, power dynamics, SOAP notes

Clinical AI scribes redistribute narrative control in medical consultations, creating unresolved tensions between equity and manipulation. The same mechanisms that might help marginalised patients push back against dismissive care could enable strategic gaming of medical records. This technology reveals that clinical documentation was never purely objective and has always been shaped by power.